The Eternal
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The Eternal is the 2009 studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, known for its dense guitar textures and marking their final release on an independent label after a long major-label run.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Eternal canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4273112 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Eternal Context triple: [Sonic Youth, notableWork, The Eternal]
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A.
The Everlasting
"The Everlasting" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, known for its reflective lyrics and sweeping, anthemic sound.
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B.
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna is a movement of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, traditionally sung in Latin and associated with prayers for eternal light and rest for the deceased.
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C.
Eternity
"Eternity" is a contemplative, atmospheric track from Vangelis’s score for the film *1492: Conquest of Paradise*, known for its lush synthesizer textures and evocative, cinematic mood.
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D.
Lux Aeterna
Lux Aeterna is a haunting minimalist orchestral piece by composer Clint Mansell, best known as the iconic theme from the film Requiem for a Dream.
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E.
The Night Eternal
The Night Eternal is the third and final novel in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s horror trilogy The Strain, concluding the story of a vampiric plague and humanity’s struggle for survival.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Eternal Target entity description: The Eternal is the 2009 studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, known for its dense guitar textures and marking their final release on an independent label after a long major-label run.
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A.
The Everlasting
"The Everlasting" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers, known for its reflective lyrics and sweeping, anthemic sound.
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B.
Lux aeterna
Lux aeterna is a movement of the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass, traditionally sung in Latin and associated with prayers for eternal light and rest for the deceased.
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C.
Eternity
"Eternity" is a contemplative, atmospheric track from Vangelis’s score for the film *1492: Conquest of Paradise*, known for its lush synthesizer textures and evocative, cinematic mood.
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D.
Lux Aeterna
Lux Aeterna is a haunting minimalist orchestral piece by composer Clint Mansell, best known as the iconic theme from the film Requiem for a Dream.
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E.
The Night Eternal
The Night Eternal is the third and final novel in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s horror trilogy The Strain, concluding the story of a vampiric plague and humanity’s struggle for survival.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Eternal Description of subject: The Eternal is the 2009 studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, known for its dense guitar textures and marking their final release on an independent label after a long major-label run.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.